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ADVANCED 
THOUGHT. 



The 

Religion 
of 
Civilization. 

By 
Catechism. JAMES 

The Cymry. OLIVER 

ARNOLD 



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ADVANCED THOUGHT 



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Electrical and Spiritual 
Voltage 



Two Invisible Forces of Nature : 

Spirit Supreme, and 
The Induction of Spirit Into Man 



BY 



JAMES OLIVER ARNOLD 



Copyright, April i, A. D. 1902 



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EVEBY LIVING SOUL, LIFE, OR EXISTENCE 

HAS CONTRIBUTED HIS, HER, OR ITS MITE TO 

ADVANCED THOUGHT, THE RELIGION OF CIVILIZATION. 

TO PREFER ANY ONE OF THEM 

WOULD BE TO DESTROY HARMONY— HEAVEN. 

YOU, MY DEAR READER, 

ARE A MEMBER IN FULL STANDING. 

TO STUDENTS: 

GO, TRANSMITTED SPIRIT IN STORAGE, 
TO FULFIL THY MISSION. 



ADVANCED THOUGHT. 



PRIMITIVE MAN.— Primitive man, with his 
idea of a small flat earth, and the sun rising in the 
east and setting in the west, naturally philosophized 
that there was something greater in the world than 
himself. He naturally worshiped the sun. As he 
grew wiser, he watched the sun by day and the stars 
by night, the moon and its phases, without the aid 
of science or education, and that alone inspired him 
to advanced thought. This advanced thought has 
continued until it has proven that electricity is in 
one unit volume of voltage, which evolved the 
thought that spirit is in one unit volume of voltage, 
and a superior force. 

CATECHISM. 

Question. 

What is a catechism? 
Answer. Questions and answers. 

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6 Advanced Thought 

Question. 

What is spirit and electricity? 

Answer. Spirit and electricity are two units in 
volume of voltage, and are invisible forces; or, in 
other words, spirit and electricity are independent 
of each other, each of which is a unit volume of 
voltage of invisible force, existing in and through 
all space and matter. Electricity is a material 
force. Spirit is a spiritual force of supreme power, 
to intelligence, omnipresent God. 

Question. 

What is matter? 

Answer. Matter is a condition caused by spirit; 
it is better known to the finite mind as activities of 
life, mind, memory, words, flesh, earth, vegetation, 
sun, moon, stars, air, fire, water, electricity, and 
all that which is not visible to man, all of this is 
controlled by spirit — God. 

Question. 

What is man ? 

Answer. Man is matter, a condition caused by 
spirit; of the animal species, a mammal, carnivo- 



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rous, superior to his brethren of the animal creation 
because of his having a larger and better developed 
brain, the cells of which are numbered by billions; 
they are susceptible of being inspired to intelligence 
by spirit, which is in voltage and omnipresent. The 
human brain is superior in refinement to all ani- 
mated creatures on earth, with spirit inspiring them 
all. 

Man exists to-day on the earth as a cannibal, and 
in his primitive state, with all the gradations to the 
most intelligent in civilization. God made man in 
his own image. It was a spiritual image of spirit's 
inspiration to the cells of the brain. 

Question. 

What is religion? 

Answer. Keligion is a problem to solve, of how 
it is best to live on earth in a social condition and 
in equality with our fellow-man, — the solution of a 
future existence, and our present life to attain it. 
In other words, how to live without reproach. 

Question. 

What is the religion of civilization? 



8 Advanced Thought 

Answer. It is the conglomerate ultimate exist- 
ence and finality of all life and activities during the 
present and future, in perfect equity, the ultimate 
of philosophy. 

In other words, How can we live day after day 
and in succeeding ages, socially, to produce the best 
results for ourselves and our fellow-man, in perfect 
justice? The world's progress is doing this, and has 
been in all vocations in life. This, too, is advanced 
thought, the religion of civilization. It began with 
the mental activities of life, and will continue as 
long as life exists. It embodies the inventive, com- 
mercial, scientific, philosophic, religious, and all 
other phases of thought, and is moving onward to 
the acme of wisdom, inspired by spirit to peace — 
harmony — heaven . 

Question. 

What is God? 

Answer. God is an omnipotent, omniscient, om- 
nipresent, silent, invisible element of force, occupy- 
ing all worlds, matter, and space, and is manifested 
by spirit to all life and existence, to activity and in- 
telligence. 



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Question. 

What is spirit? 

Answer. Spirit is a silent, invisible element of 
supreme force to life, activity, and intelligence. It 
is the manifestation, and, in its concrete, is voltage 
of existence — God. Or, in other words, God is the 
only unit of supreme force in existence to life and 
intelligence; God is a spirit, and spirit is a mani- 
festation of God. 

ANALOGIES. — As water is manifested in power 
by steam, as electricity is a manifestation of mag- 
netism, as spirit is a manifestation of God to in- 
telligence, all of which are similar invisible forces, 
we are enabled to see and declare the supremacy of 
spirit — God. 

CONCLUSIONS.— We deduce from the above 
analogies the following: That there is no evil 
steam, there is no evil electricity, there is no evil 
spirit; all is good — spirit — God. 

COMPAKISONS.— If a high pressure of steam 
could not produce power, the cause would be a de- 



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fective engine, or an incompetent engineer. If elec- 
tricity cannot propel a car, the cause would be in 
the motor, motorman, or machinery. 

If spirit cannot inspire brains to intelligence, the 
cause is defective, diseased, or atrophied cells of 
brains. As there are not two brains alike in the 
world, we can note the diversity of man. 

There is no evil spirit, therefore spirit — God — is 
supreme. 

Question. 

What is the brain ? 

Answer. The anatomy of man's brain clearly 
demonstrates the subdivisions, their uses and qual- 
ity, showing how the gray matter is the seat of intel- 
lect. An injury of the one part will cause paralysis 
of the limbs, but not the intellect. 

The gray matter of the brain must be more refined 
for the work it has to do, and contains an infinites- 
simal number of atoms or cells to receive spirit 
from spiritual voltage, by which they are enlight- 
ened. The disturbance of said brain matter, by a 
shock or pistol ball fired through the gray matter, 
destroys its power of intellect, which also causes 



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instant death of body ; or a slight shock may produce 
unconsciousness, or insanity, either permanent or 
temporary, should the vitality of the body survive 
the shock. This fact is so well known that it is 
mentioned only to demonstrate that brain is flesh 
and matter, not mind nor spirit. It makes no dif- 
ference whether it be the brain of a mastodon, man, 
or a glow-worm, an insect or a microbe, the com- 
ponent parts thereof are composed of water and 
phosphorus, in proportion of about eighty to eighty- 
five per cent, water, and about ten per cent, more 
water than is contained in a beefsteak. This stuff, 
or refined material, makes up the average human 
brain, and is divided into units, called atoms or 
cells, the latter name, for the want of a better one, 
is generally adopted to express the extent of its 
diversity in composition and size; for instance, the 
substance not only is concentrated in the cranium, 
but extends to the extremities of the body, and to 
all parts, from the toes and finger-ends to the 
cranium, thereby we may say constituting an in- 
telligent nervous system, including the marrow, not 
excepting the bones. This is the brain, that man 



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says does his thinking. The brain does not think. 
It is only the substance composing the brain that 
receives the impression of a thought on a cell to 
intelligence by spirit. The atoms — cells — are num- 
bered by billions, and some are atrophying, dying, 
dead, others renewed, maturing, by the health of 
the body, and millions remain good during life, with 
strong, healthy people, to be inspired by spirit to 
intelligence. 

Question. 

What is amplitude? 

Answer. Amplitude is the extent, degree, or 
largeness of a vibration, from a central point, like 
the pendulum of a clock, a large clock having a 
larger vibration than a smaller one. The word is 
used by electricians, and is applicable in explaining 
spirit, as both are invisible elements, and especially 
spirit's induction upon the cells of the brain of man. 
. The cells of brain with a small amplitude would 
be less able to comprehend spirit's inspiration. The 
larger the amplitude the greater the capacity of the 
cells of brain to be inspired by spirit. 



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Question. 

What is syntony ? 

Answer. Syntony is harmony, tone, or in tune; 
hence syntony may be in tune with a large or small 
amplitude. Perfect syntony would be the largest 
amplitude that might be attained with spirit — God. 
Or, in other words, if a human being had perfect 
cells of brain to receive spirit and comprehend it, 
he would be in perfect syntony with, and he would 
then be equal to spirit in a spiritual sense, and he 
would thus be created a perfect image of God. Or, 
to be more definite, if a man had all perfect cells of 
gray matter in his brain, his inspiration of spirit 
would be perfect and all of his thoughts would be 
good, in tune and in harmony with spirit. 

BRAIN IS MAN'S RECEIVER.— The refine- 
ment of the brain and the inspiration of spirit 
thereon has produced such a wonderful and mani- 
fold religious and scientific thought to the present 
time, in such a way that the inventions in a me- 
chanical brain of a day equal all the told miracles 
of the past, to prove the induction of spirit into 
man, through the medium of his brain, from the 
unit volume of spiritual voltage. Thus bestowing 



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upon man, a chosen medium, the power to utilize 
spirit and all the elements of nature, so far as the 
refinement of his brain will be in amplitude and 
syntony with spirit, thus to enable him to conduct 
his business, his scientific or religious thought. 

The history of the world to-day is the record of 
the past, and the daily press and publications all 
over the world are daily records of the continued 
process of the refinement of the brain, and the ac- 
tion of spirit thereon, and its amplitude and syn- 
tony with spirit, trending toward a higher evolution 
and civilization that is comprehensible to the pres- 
ent refinement of man's brain. 

The brain as a unit is material, and its cells 
of gray matter are all different, and if some of these 
are affected by disease or decay, so as to cause in- 
sanity, and spirit is by inspiration received by these 
diseased cells of brain, then we must expect corre- 
sponding results. Transmitted thought, or spirit, 
orally spoken to this diseased brain, would meet 
with the result of insane replies, and so with brains 
in every phase of life, there being no two brains 
alike, cannot be, and never will be; therefore, we 



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have the versatility of man, from the insane object 
of pity to the wise, in every vocation in life, to 
the most refined brain in existence. Thus we find 
in the child and man, that one thought expressed 
to a cell of gray matter by spirit, will cause laughter 
and in another the same thought will produce anger, 
and that which will make one man laugh will cause 
another to weep. One and the same thoughts ex- 
pressed in public will convey different meanings to 
those present, which is the cause of contention, 
often bitter strife, and each will charge the other 
with having an evil spirit coming over him. It is 
the condition of the brain, the defective brain cells; 
the fault is not the spirit, for the reason that spirit 
is good, and good is God, and spirit is always with 
us, and a part of us — that means God. The ques- 
tion with us, individually, to answer is this: What 
is the amplitude and syntony of my brain with 
spirit ? Some call this self-examination. If a man's 
brain could be in perfect syntony with spirit, he 
would be good — God. It all depends upon the re- 
finement of his brain, its development and its sus- 
ceptibility of receiving impressions and enlighten- 



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ment. We call it temperament, but when a person 
is alone, no one near him, the natural inspiration 
of spirit continues to be received by the brain cells, 
his receivers, and this we call an active mind. If 
our thoughts dwell upon God, we call it a heavenly 
spirit, and if they dwell upon earthly pleasures, man 
calls it a devilish spirit. So we philosophize in this 
way: If any member in our body is used con- 
stantly, the stronger it becomes, and the less it is 
used the weaker it grows. This demonstration of 
strength can be noticed in right and left-handed 
men. 

Now, as our brain is in amplitude with spirit, 
and habit has caused us to be constantly dwelling 
on spiritual matters, it is natural for more of those 
brain cells to be enlightened, and increased accord- 
ing to the law of nature. Hence, the spiritual life 
of the possessor of such a brain can be expected to 
be in larger amplitude and syntony with spirit. And 
on the other hand, if our thoughts are dwelling on 
earthly matters, whatever they may be, (large busi- 
ness brain cells are generally refined,) society or 
love, all of which are brought into action according 



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to the refinement of the brain, and as the amplitude 
of said brain is, and as it is also in syntony with 
spirit, so will the result be. Man can change this 
only by refinement of his brain, which is subject to 
the most wonderful evolutions by business, vision, 
transmited oral thought, and by literary publica- 
tions, books, oratory, sermons, and the company he 
keeps, which includes the language used and trans- 
mitted. His close attention to business will animate 
millions of cells, and the character of this will raise 
or lower his amplitude and syntony with spirit. If 
it is good, the brain is being refined by more cells 
of gray matter enlightened. If bad, the brain is de- 
generating, becoming defective or atrophied and in 
lower amplitude with spirit, which man calls an evil 
spirit, which is man's consciousness of his defective 
cells of brain in amplitude and syntony with spirit, 
which controls his actions ; and his fellow-man, hav- 
ing had the same experience and having no other 
way to account for his waywardness, calls it an evil 
spirit. It is defective cells of brain. There is no 
evil spirit to cause insanity; it is man's defective 
cells of brain. 

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Does not spirit enlighten the brain by inspira- 
tion ? The new-born babe is the most helpless crea- 
ture on earth, void of thought or mind, yet it lives 
and can survive, though the mother dies the next 
moment after birth. The babe grows in strength, 
and the first smile upon its face is the first dawn 
of pleasure that he conceives. Is this not spiritual 
inspiration? As he grows to manhood, his knowl- 
edge increases according to his brain's maturity and 
amplitude to receive spirit, and the more perfect the 
brain he has, the nearer he is in perfect syntony 
with spirit. As the little child was asked the ques- 
tion by her teacher, "What is spirit ?" she answered, 
"It 's the think." The more imperfect the brain, the 
smaller the degree of amplitude, the less intelli- 
gence, and the less power to receive inspiration from 
spiritual voltage to a degree in lower animal species, 
so low that no thought of spirit or God enters their 
brain, save instinct and intuition. These two ex- 
tremes give us all conditions of the human family 
and animal existence on this earth, as to their spir- 
itual condition. The instincts and intuition of ani- 
mals, birds, fishes, and microbes are from the same 



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spiritual voltage which gives life and intelligence to 
man. 

Question. 

What is language ? 

Answer. Language was the first fruit of social 
existence expressing thought, which was the de- 
velopment of those expressive actions into words, a 
lullaby, grunt, with gestures and monosyllables, hav- 
ing been evolved from sensibility and feeling. 
Words are but impressed memories of the brain and 
the oral expressions from tongue to tongue solved 
the mystery of speech and mind, producing the won- 
derful strides of the intellect, by the inspiration of 
spirit upon the brain cells of man. The develop- 
ment and refinement of which from ages past to the 
present is an evolution of breeding and advanced 
thought beyond his design and at spirit's command. 

Question. 

What is thought ? 

Answer. Thought is spirit's indelible impression 
on a cell of gray matter in the brain, by inspira- 
tion to intelligence. As the cells of gray matter 



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live during the vitality of the body, the same as the 
finger on your hand, which you can see, or any 
member thereof, then the life of this cell of brain 
lives and is the foundation of memory of the same 
thought. If spirit inspires another cell of brain to 
the same thought, it reinforces memory. Photo- 
graphs of scenes in life by vision are indelible im- 
pressions on the cells of brain, which reinforces 
memory. The sound waves through the ear are in- 
delible impressions on the cells of the brain to rein- 
force memory. The sense of smell is an indelible 
impression on the cells of brain to reinforce memory 
by a recurrence, and the sense of taste as well. The 
nervous system is the most sensitive to communi- 
cate to and from the cells of brain and body, with 
spirit acting on defective cells of brain, all of which 
form a combination and a degree of intelligence and 
nervous force. 

Question. 

What is memory? 

Answer. Memory is the retention of a thought 
inspired by spirit, upon a cell of gray matter in the 
brain, and as long as the cell of gray matter is alive 



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that has been inspired by spirit with a thought, and 
in a healthy condition, which in many instances 
continues through life, then the same thought exists 
in memory. Spirit inspiring the same thought on 
other cells of gray matter, reinforces memory. 
Transmitted oral thought, by another of the same 
thought, will reinforce memory. 

When the brain is young and the vitality of the 
body is in full vigor, the cells of brain assume a 
vitality of health that may continue through life, 
unimpaired, and spirit inspiring the cells of brain 
in youth, under favorable conditions, leaves the 
most enduring indelible impressions of memory 
during life. I distinctly remember of being scalded 
sixty years ago, and the cells of brain upon which 
spirit recorded the incident are alive, also th© scars 
on my body are indelible. 

This life of the cell of brain accounts for the 
memory of any unworthy act we may have com- 
mitted to the injury of another. It is ever alive in 
our memory, to annoy us during life, and as long as 
that cell of brain is alive so long will the memory 
of the act exist with us. This is called conscience. 



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To repair the injury offers its own condonation, or 
balances the account of spirit inspiring both defec- 
tive and refined cells of brain to peace and harmony 
with spirit — God. 

Question. 

What is mind? 

Answer. Mind is memory collectively or in con- 
crete expression dependent upon many cells of gray 
matter in the brain, on many different subjects. If 
the cells are good and healthy, so they can be in- 
spired by spirit, then we call it a sound mind, and 
if they are diseased, we call them defective, which 
sometimes leads to insanity, and we then call it an 
unsound mind. Spirit inspires the cells of the brain 
in man to various thoughts on different lines of 
subjects. He may be a farmer, yet be well versed in 
history; he may be a mechanic, yet well educated in 
scientific thought; he may be a laborer, but well up 
in politics; he may be a lawyer and a student of re- 
ligious lore; he may be a merchant, but a great stu- 
dent in literature; and these diversities broaden a 
man's thoughts and give him a refined mind through 
inspiration of spirit upon his refined cells of brain. 



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Question, 

What is voltage? 

Answer. Voltage is a unit volume of force; a 
volt is a unit of voltage. There are two — spirit 
and electricity. Spirit is supreme by inspiring cells 
of the brain of man to intelligence, enabling him to 
utilize electricity for mechanical purposes. The ac- 
tivities of life are also manifested by electricity, 
it being in our bodies, but all are controlled by 
spirit. Both are in voltage, but are two distinct 
elements. Electricity is an element of force. Spirit 
is an element of life, intelligence, and a unit of 
supreme force. 

In our daily work and vocations in life, we are 
worshiping this spirit in truth, and according as our 
cells are refined to be inspired by spirit, so will our 
words, actions, and the result of our life's work be 
known. This is the religion of civilization. 

Questio?i. 

What is spiritual and electrical voltage? 

Answer. The only way that we know that elec- 
tricity exists is by its application and results, which 



24 Advanced Thought 

we see in daily use; and the only way we know that 
spirit exists is by its application and results upon 
the human brain of man, in all of his activities. 
The senders and receivers, to utilize electrical volt- 
age, demonstrate that space and matter are filled 
with a unit voltage of electricity, and to disturb it 
by a sender causes a wave around and through the 
earth in a few seconds, and this acts upon the re- 
ceiver in a distant locality, or any locality, so that 
it can be read the same as we see daily in every 
telegraph office in the land. If they fail to record 
a message, electricity is not charged with the fault. 
There is no evil electricity; it is the instrument or 
machinery that is out of order, not evil electricity. 
That spiritual voltage, also as before stated, exists 
in all space, is in evidence with us every moment 
of our existence, and go where we will, to the utter- 
most parts of the earth, we find it ever present with 
us, and with all people on the globe, enlightening 
the brain cells of man, and those who have had no 
religious teaching, by all they see around them in 
nature and their own existence, leads them to be- 
lieve the omnipresence of spirit. If we cannot 



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think, it is not the fault of the spirit; it is the 
brain. There is no evil spirit. 

Question. 

What is spiritual voltage? 

Answer. Spirit is a unit volume of voltage, oc- 
cupying space, all worlds, animated and inanimated 
matter, and is more incomprehensible to man than 
electricity, because it is supreme. The atmosphere, 
the earth, the elements, and all living creatures, and 
all that which pertains to life, and all worlds and 
space are at spirit's command. This is a broad 
claim, and all life and existence prove it. Spirit 
is all being; it is immortal existence. Its contact 
with the brain creates life, thought, intelligence, 
memory, intellectual faculties, and the conscious- 
ness of its immortality. 

The lower animals and all life are animated and 
derive their instincts, intuition, and existence from 
the same spiritual voltage, on their brains, that ac- 
tuates man to control the world and all that therein 
is. 

We have in the explanation of amplitude and 




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syntony the evidence of how spiritual voltage, in 
space and existence, is utilized by man, with his 
own brain as receiver. Man thinks he is the ego, 
soul, the great I am. Man's thoughts are not his, 
but spirit inspiring the thoughts to his cells of 
brain, and his words are but the expression of his 
thoughts from the source of spirit. If man could 
have a perfect brain receiver, he would be in perfect 
syntony with spirit — God. 

MARCONI. — Spirit acting on the brain of Sig- 
nor Marconi has demonstrated, by wireless teleg- 
raphy, that electricity is a unit volume of voltage 
in and through the earth, water, and space (in this 
year, December 14, 1901). He has mastered the 
waves and vibrations of electricity, and so separated 
them, at will, that no other can read his messages, 
unless they possess and use instruments adjusted to 
the same amplitude. He said, in an explanation: 
'If you take two tuning forks of the same length 
of vibration, (or amplitude is a better word,) one 
will act on the other if it is sounded or tuned, and 
the other is at rest, and it will have no effect upon 



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a fork of different amplitude ; and that which is true 
of sound waves is true of electricity. A sender and 
receiver must be tuned, so to speak, or within cer- 
tain limits, or one will not act on the other. It is 
toward narrowing these limits of sympathy that all 
electricians are striving." Signor Marconi has 
solved the problem. This will prevent the mixing 
of messages and secure secrecy. In order to steal a 
message, it will be necessary to know the vibrations 
of the sender, and at the same time have an instru- 
ment which is syntonized. This illustrates man's 
secrecy; no one can divine his thoughts, unless their 
cells of brain are in syntony. You meet thousands 
of people on the street ; each one is a sealed book to 
you. No one knows his brain's syntony with spirit, 
neither its amplitude. He alone can transmit his 
thoughts or spirit's inspiration by his acts or oral 
expression to another. Man thus naturally dwells 
alone with spirit — God. This solemn unity is that 
which inspires all life to intelligence and activity, 
and impresses man to confidence of his importance 
and dignity which is manifested by ego, soul, I am. 
These are the fundamental principles of all ab- 



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stract theories of religious beliefs, hypnotic and 
mesmeric influences, all of which are well known to 
science and are based on natural fundamental laws 
in existence, and ever have been. 

Question. 

What is spirit for all thought % 

Answer. Man's brain must have required many 
years to have attained a refinement or development 
sufficient to be in its present amplitude and syntony 
with spirit, judging from man's lowest state of in- 
telligence, to the highest known to the civilized 
world; and the remarkable part of it is that the two 
extremes of ignorance and wisdom exist on the 
globe to-day, (see the daily papers,) and the same 
spirit is supplying spiritual intelligence to all, ac- 
cording to the amplitude of their receivers — the 
brain, fully demonstrating that spirit fills all space 
and is a more potent power than electricity, as 
spirit has harnessed electricity to do its bidding, 
proving its supremacy and independence. At no 
time in the world's history could this spiritual volt- 
age have been explained in a philosophical manner 



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until Signer Marconi succeeded in establishing 
wireless telegraphy across the ocean, and the ex- 
planation of amplitude and syntony in connection 
therewith. 

Thus, step by step, the scientific world leads in 
advanced thought, deriving its enlightenment from 
spirit, and from the same spiritual voltage that 
enlightens the brain of man in the religious world 
with facts as wonderful as the miracles told of old, 
to establish a foundation for true faith in spiritual 
inspiration for all thought, mind, and action in all 
created beings. 

Question. 

What is woman? 

Answer. Woman is man's opposite sex; with this 
exception, both are one. When speaking of man, it 
means either sex, dependent upon inference. A 
woman has a brain more refined by nature than 
man, to be inspired by spirit to a sense of peace, 
love, harmony — heaven. She is spiritual, blending 
with spirit — God. Woman in simplicity is a typical 
child of nature; were it not so, her child (man) 



30 Advanced Thought 

would be a brute. The name of "mother" makes 
this manifest to man. 

Question. 

What is spirit's direct inspiration to man? 

Answer. Every new thought a person has on any 
subject, whatever, that he has never heard orally 
expressed or read, is direct inspiration from spirit. 
It cannot be otherwise. No sane man ever lived 
who has not thus been inspired to thoughts of intelli- 
gence direct from spirit. The new and startling in- 
ventions of a day are enough to convince one of this 
fact. 

Man's religious thoughts are from the same 
source as business thoughts, and all thoughts are 
spirit's inspiration to his cells of brain to intelli- 
gence. If man's cells of brain are good, his thoughts 
will be good. If man's cells of brain are imper- 
fect, then his thoughts will not be good. The same 
spirit inspires both the good and defective cells of 
brain to intelligence in the same cranium. The 
educated, sane man, when he becomes insane, is an 
example. It may happen at any moment to any 
man. 



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Question. 

What is transmitted spirit? 

Answer. Transmitted spirit is an oral thought 
or expression revealed to another in ordinary con- 
versation or by the reading of a book, which was 
spirit's inspiration to the author. The reading aloud 
in the presence of an audience would transmit the 
intelligence. A letter, telephone message, Marconi- 
gram, or telegram are all transmitted spirit to in- 
telligence. 

Question. 

What is spirit in storage? 

Answer. All printed matter was inspired 
thought, at some time, by the author. When writ- 
ten or printed, it becomes spirit in storage to be 
inducted or transmitted to students or to the reader 
at pleasure. 

Question. 

What is heaven? 

Answer. Heaven is harmony. It is spirit inspir- 
ing the cells of brain to happiness, or healthy cells 
of brain in syntony with spirit — God. 



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Question. 

Where is heaven? 

Answer. It is where happiness and harmony ex- 
ist. When we are happy we are in heaven. When 
we are in harmony with others we are in heaven. 
When we are in love we are in heaven. Try it. 
If you want to be in heaven, be good to-day. Yes- 
terday is past, to-morrow may never dawn upon 
your vision. It is now, this minute, to enjoy heaven 
to be in syntony with spirit — God. If you are not 
in heaven, then refine your cells of brain. 

Question. 

What is hell? 

Answer. Hell is discord. It is spirit inspiring 
defective cells of brain to thoughts of discord. A 
good musician could produce only discordant notes 
on a defective instrument, and these discordant 
notes would be "helled off," set apart from the or- 
chestra by the director ; hence the word "hell." The 
mystic thought of the past added fearful forebod- 
ings to the word of eternal damnation and punish- 
ment by burning with brimstone and fire forever 



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and ever, accompanied by devils to superintend. 
To be in bell is to possess diseased, defective cells 
of brain that cannot be inspired by spirit to har- 
monious thoughts. No living creature has all per- 
fect cells of brain, and defective cells in our cra- 
nium cause discord — hell. 

Question. 

What is man's spirit? 

Answer. Man's spirit is that element which has 
inspired his cells of brain to intelligence, life, and 
activity. In connection therewith, and similar, the 
same as man's food, which he assimilates to sustain 
life, or man's electricity in his body, the water he 
drinks, and the atmosphere he breathes, each inde- 
pendent factors. Without either of these elements, 
man could not live an hour. While he was utiliz- 
ing them to sustain life, man called them his; but 
at his death each element remains in its constituent 
existence to supply his successor, and this is true of 
all animated life and existence. Man is not a pre- 
ferred stockholder. Even the wealth man has ac- 
cumulated on earth unto himself remains on earth, 

3 



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and the only value that blends his existence with 
spirit — God — is the result of his life's work, which 
is eternal. Man on earth lives an average of only 
twenty-two and a half years. Man's spirit, as he 
calls it, at his death, remains in its concrete exist- 
ence spirit — God. This is the religion of civiliza- 
tion moving onward to harmony, heaven. Every 
religious belief, with its leader of the mystic past, 
blends with the present progress of advanced 
thought, and all are stepping-stones to love. 

Question. 

What is love ? 

Answer. Love is affinity, harmony, heaven. It is 
spirit inspiring like cells of brain in harmony in 
two or more craniums to intelligence; they are then 
in affinity — heaven. All atoms, cells of brain, are 
in activity — motion; those that are in affinity, when 
inspired by spirit to intelligence at some supreme 
moment, harmonize, and those that are not in af- 
finity or in syntony are discordant and are "helled" 
apart. Hence those that are in affinity are inspired 
by spirit to love, and those that are not in affinity 



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move independently of each other; but the dis- 
cordant ones in one cranium may have larger in- 
spirations, say of literature, logic, business, relig- 
ion, or a scientific trend to embellish the world of 
thought with inspirations to indelible fame, instead 
of sexual love, or affinity for momentary pleasure. 
Hence they do not mate. (See poem.) 

LOVE. 
Amoritta : 

O Love! why hast thou so deftly placed 

Beyond our human ken the power of thy divinity ? 

Come, tell us what is lo^e? 
Is it to delve down deep into the ecstasy 
Of morbid pleasures sensual? 
To twine around our lives a dream of bliss? 
To look upon our mates as if their presence alone 
Answered the sequel? 
To soothe, comfort, and pander to the flesh ? 

Do tell us — 
Is it to alleviate the pains of others, 
To strike the chains of slavery from our fellow- 
man? 
To stretch out the hand of charity to the poor? 
To soothe with words of comfort to the fallen ? 
To chastise ourselves with penance ? . 



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To release the criminal from his cell? 
Or, is it a messenger of peace ? 

Love : 
Yes, a messenger of peace; 
A solace to the young and comfort to old age. 
My laws are well denned in all that nature 
Strews before the mind, 

Though, to some, it, in homely garb, is disregarded, 
Yet by others it is most esteemed. 
A flower, by one, is much applauded, 
While to another a rock is far more beautiful. 
Yet each hath found admirers, to his taste 
And culture, and sees in them great mysteries — 
The spirit — and the great beyond. 
A source of happiness is thus engendered, 
And happiness is peace. 
Two strangers meet, 

In each, the lines of care hath set its seal; 
And the throng doth pass them by, not even worth 
A furtive glance. He, coarse, uncouth; and she, 

most homely. 
Yet they see that which others cannot see, 
And the affinity that draw T s them close in contact, 
Finds in them admirers, too. 
And this is happiness, and happiness is peace, and 

peace 
Is love. 



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The cooing mates do see the shading of a somber 

hue in each 
Most enchanting to their eyes. 
And this is happiness, and happiness is peace, and 

peace 
Is love. 

If thou wilt know the secret of my abiding, 
Go hence and study nature's laws; 
iS ot in a commercial sense, lest the getting for a 
Price doth its value lessen, and render it a source of 
Vulgar hate. 

But, look ! and thou wilt find a chalice near to thee, 
Filled with happiness to the brim; 
Partake of it, by portioning out 
Thy time, wrenched from gaining bread or gain, 
In thoughtfulness to others — 
And the reflection 

Thou wilt soon possess is happiness, and happiness 
Is peace, and peace is love. 
And thus beyond the human ken thou canst not 

see, 
But to know that I abide with thee. 
Go forth and strew the flowers during life to those 
Most needing, according to thy ability, looking 

through 
The lenses of happiness and peace, and then thou 

canst 



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Feel, not see, 

The power of my divinity — Love. 

Question. 

What is marriage? 

Answer. Marriage is a declaration between the 
parties involved to produce a state of harmony — 
heaven. Wisdom, which is the experience of the 
past, instituted marriage after the people became 
corrupt, to prevent disease, and to refine the cells 
of brain by selection to be inspired by spirit to 
superior intelligence, and to control inheritance of 
property. Or, in other words, to improve the race. 
When the laws of genealogy, intelligence, selection 
of mates, and the breeding for distinct purposes of 
intelligence become paramount to love and greed 
for gold, then the race will have evolved to a higher 
civilization. This will take ages. It exists to-day, 
by chance only. Whatever is true in the breeding 
of stock is true of man. An insane ancestor will 
breed several generations of defective cells of brain, 
causing many crazy, queer descendants. This is 
the origin of what is called "original sin." 



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Question. 

What is evil? 

Answer. Evil is only a comparison of man's con- 
duet gauged by the environment of man's conditions 
of existence and dependent upon the refinement of 
his brain, to be inspired by spirit — God. 

Question, 

What are devils? 

Answer. Devils are imaginary elves, so named 
in the mystic past ; and angels are their antipodes. 

Question. 

What is the soul of man ? 

Answer. It is his conscious thoughts, memory, 
and mind in harmony with spirit — God. 

Question. 

Will the soul live after the death of the body ? 

Answer. Its resultant reflection by transmitted 
spirit to others during life will live to eternity. Or, 
in other words, all of which man has taught to oth- 
ers during life that was in harmony with spirit — 
God — will continue to be taught, and will live to 



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eternity. All that was not in harmony with spirit — 
God — cannot exist eternally. 

Question. 

Will the soul be damned? 

Answer. No, never as long: as spirit — God — 
exists. 

Question. 

Why should man be good ? 

Answer. The reward to be good is the immediate 
repose to the realization and reflection of peace, 
harmony, heaven, spirit — God. 

Question. 

What is sin ? 

Answer. Sin, as a word, means bad, imperfect, 
the opposite of good. 

Question. 

Was man born in sin? 

Answer. No; not unless by inheritance his par- 
ents transmitted imperfect cells of brain by breed- 
ing, which is of daily record. The monument 



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erected on Copp's Hill, Boston, to "infants 
damned" is the result of spirit inspiring imperfect 
cells of brain to intelligence. It is a monument of 
the mystic past, but establishes the fact that the 
people who erected it thought so. 

Question. 

What is a strong character ? 

Answer. To say yes when you want to, and no 
because you can. A diplomat can say both without 
saying either. 

Question. 

What is dual mind? 

Answer. Dual mind is spirit inspiring defective 
and refined cells of brain in the same cranium to in- 
telligence in sequences of moments. Or, in other 
words, when a person has about an equal number 
of good and defective cells of brain in his cranium, 
which are in constant motion, spirit inspires them 
alternately, or one after another, which produces 
either good or bad thoughts. This accounts for 
some people who never can decide what to do, and 
who call in the second and third party to make the 



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decision. This is why a judge and jury of twelve are 
called upon to decide points in law, and the cause of 
an appeal to higher courts. 

Question, 

What is a religious belief? 

Answer. A religious belief is caused by man's 
consciousness of his own existence and intelligence, 
regardless of his education, which caused his in- 
quiry as to his future, after the death of his body. 
Therefore, no human being can exist without a re- 
ligious belief. Advanced thought, the religion of 
civilization, began with primitive man, and includes 
all religious beliefs and antagonizes none, and is 
moving on to harmony — heaven. 

Question. 

What is a miracle ? 

Answer. A miracle, as told in the mythical past, 
is a visionary supposition caused by transmitted 
spirit to cells of brain to a belief of reality. In 
other words, an illusion. If wireless telegraphy had 
been kept a secret, it would to many minds have 
been a miracle. It loses its mystic influence by its 



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becoming a commercial commodity. There is noth- 
ing supernatural, never has been or never can be. 

Question. 

What is worship? 

Answer. Worship is spirit — God — utilizing the 
cells of brain as a unit or an instrument in the uni- 
verse to induct spirit's inspiration to life activity 
and intelligence for good. As far as it relates to 
man as a spiritual image, it means an influence of 
civilization, the reciprocal of which blends with 
spirit — God. In other words, if spirit — God — is 
pleased with us, we certainly must be pleased with 
spirit — God. "This holy image that is man, God 
worshipeth" (Foxe). 

Question. 

What is prayer? 

Answer. Prayer is a mental jurisprudence, a re- 
flection of spirit upon the cells of brain, acknowl- 
edging the helplessness of the petitioner in the cause 
in which he is interested, or a supplication for aid 
to spirit in voltage, which is omnipresent spirit — 
God. 



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In all the wars of the past for supremacy, the 
combatants indulged in prayer for aid. Had the 
same devoutness been extended for justice, peace, 
and arbitration, war would not have existed. It is 
simply a demonstration of spirit acting either on 
defective or refined cells of brain. The result is 
obvious. Peace is spirit inspiring refined cells of 
brain to harmony. 

Question. 

What is answer to prayer? 

Answer. The answer to prayer is that which en- 
lightens the cells of brain to a more perfect syntony 
with spirit — God, and it thus controls the actions 
of human beings, as a recipient consequence to re- 
pose. All men pray, especially those in whom spirit 
is animating the defective cells of brain, which are 
in a state of rebellion, with all manner of thoughts 
appealing, or in contrast with the refined cells of 
brain in his cranium. The same cause, and the 
same conditions of distress with spirit inspiring re- 
fined cells of brain would have produced a different 
result, and treatment would have been unnecessary. 



Advanced Thought 45 

There are instances where a friend of the same re- 
ligious belief can, by oral thought, enlighten refined 
cells of brain, producing the best results without 
the aid of medicine; and this with nature, the cure- 
all of man, and homeopathic doses of medicine, 
restores to health and repose. As more than three- 
fourths of the cases are mental disturbances caused 
by defective cells of brain to receive spirit, opens 
up the field to all kinds of doctors of metaphysical 
beliefs, and doctors of divinity reap a rich and de- 
serving reward in this field of their work, with 
little or no remuneration. When a fellow gets real 
sick, the answers to prayer are as numerous with the 
allopathists as any of them, if he does cut one open, 
sew him up, and dose him with quinine. It means 
business very often, and there is no time for faith, 
but I have noticed, of late years, that the medicine 
is more efficacious if properly prepared by the chem- 
ist, after a carefully written prescription by the 
physician ; it costs more, but the medicine is "pure." 
We have indulged in this byplay to sincerely im- 
press the reader with the fact that answer to prayer 
is in a spiritual sense, not material, nor of the body. 



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The two great armies in the Rebellion caused by 
slavery had as many divines and devout men and 
women on one side as the other, and each prayed 
fervently for the success of their arms, for material 
aid, and while they w 7 ere fighting with that heroism 
of brother against brother, both of American stock, 
the poor black man held in slaveryy for two hundred 
and sixty years, in ignorance, never lifted his hand 
in organization, but fed his master while fighting 
to hold him in slavery; but his silent prayers, in- 
spired by the same spirit in voltage, were answered 
in a spiritual way, and not by his force of arms. 
Human beings who were cognizant of these facts, 
and are enlightened, must either be generous in 
their opinions and conclusions of each other, or ac- 
knowledge that we are brutal in our concrete de- 
cisions, and are savages, fiesh-eaters, cannibals, mur- 
derers by nature, tyrants in brain and mind, in 
small amplitude and syntony with spirit — God — to 
deny these beings of African descent an answer to 
their prayer. 

Question. 
What is reincarnation? 



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Answer. Reincarnation is involution and evolu- 
tion of nature's laws, producing that state of exist- 
ence which is found in happiness, harmony, heaven, 
or that which man calls spirit — God, The rein- 
carnation of the body is man's reproduction in his 
descendants. The reincarnation of man's spirit is 
continued concrete existence — spirit — God. 

Question. 

What is crime? 

Answer. Crime is the result of defective cells of 
brain inspired by spirit to acts in violation of nat- 
ural and all laws, of perfect equity and justice. 

Question. 

What will prevent crime ? 

Answer. Emasculation. Every murderer, thief, 
rapist, embezzler, wife-beater, arsonist, syphilitic, 
insane incurables, and confirmed criminals should 
be so treated in the most humane manner, in their 
days of puberty only, by law. Instead of lynching 
to death, the culprit or patient should be emascu- 
lated, to prevent a possible chance of his reproduc- 
ing his kind or cells of brain to be inspired by spirit 



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in future generations to similar deeds, and they 
should submit to this humane treatment cheerfully, 
as a factor in the regeneration of the race. We 
know of two instances, both colored men, who were 
thus doctored, one for mumps, the other, a slave, 
for rape, who were among the best of men after- 
wards. This law should be universal, and this alone 
will regenerate mankind quickly. Repentance or 
the conversion of a syphilitic parent will not pro- 
duce perfect cells of brain in his offspring. It is 
better to prevent the breeding of insanity than to 
cure it. Every phase of wrong-doing is a phase of 
insanity. Criminals will shun or leave a state or 
republic that will pass such a law to regenerate the 
world. Monarchies will succumb to the inevitable. 
This is advanced thought; the religion of civiliza- 
tion. 

Question. 

What is conscience? 

Answer. Conscience is the memory of some- 
thing that man has acted when his brain was in a 
small amplitude and syntony with spirit; or, in 



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other words, the action of spirit upon a defective 
cell of gray matter in the brain. A man without 
a conscience is spiritually dead, and his brain cells 
of gray matter are then in the lowest amplitude and 
syntony with spirit, which is measured according to 
the deed enacted, or transgression of the law, by the 
more refined cells of brain which he possesses; 
hence, the conflict of spirit acting upon his perfect 
brain cells, and imperfect brain cells with spirit 
as a judge acting upon his preponderance of refined 
brain cells makes the decision between right or 
wrong — this is conscience. Therefore, we often 
hear one say, "I do not want that on my con- 
science." We hear of conscience money being paid 
to relieve conscience, and we often hear men say, 
"As God is my judge," meaning spirit. 

Man has the same hopes, feelings, and faith in 
spirit to-day that he had in the most ancient days, 
and the world is growing better, and the refinement 
of the brain being educated in the line of good ad- 
vanced thoughts, whether it is in his work, business, 
religion, inventions, or in scientific studies; all are 
included in civilization, and all are trending toward 



50 Advanced Thought 

a higher amplitude and syntony with spirit. But 
that which interests man most as an individual is 
this: How can man refine his brain to that ampli- 
tude and syntony with spirit which will produce 
the best results for himself and mankind while here ? 

The answer is, by inclination in cultivating the 
highest and best thoughts known to man, and each 
day of his life to entertain good thoughts as spirit 
is impressing them upon his healthy, well developed 
cells of brain ; and by continuing this for years, man 
will find that he will have more refined cells of brain 
than defective ones. Hence his brain can be thus 
refined. This becomes habit, and habit is the result 
of thought repeated and daily impressed on new 
cells of brain, increasing their number that lead 
to action. Habit becomes independent of thought 
when aided by memory. Habit enables a person to 
write rapidly on a typewriter more than two words 
in a second of time; a musician to play upon an in- 
strument seemingly unconscious of a thought after 
continued practice. 

This also accounts for the fact that business men 
have more refined cells of brain than defective ones. 






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They are developing new cells of brain constantly, 
day and night, with business thoughts, which are in 
larger amplitude and syntony with spirit than 
thoughts that are inspired in idleness and with 
spirits animating defective brains. Hence we see 
that business is one of the greatest factors in civil- 
izing influences. The same is true of daily labor. 
A workman who keeps his mind intensely upon his 
work is not only a better workman, but a better 
man. And these cells of reiined brain exist during 
life and are lasting in memory, which forms habit, 
and habit molds character. 

THE WORLD IN TWO GROUPS. 

Question. 

Who are the Aryans? 

Answer. They are the Indo-European, or Aryan 
race. Bopp says, Indo-Germanic. They consist of 
the Bramanis India, Caucasian (many dialects), 
Greek and Latin, the Slavic, the Germanic, the 
Celtic (Kelts), Cymry (Kimry), Persian, and Ar- 
menian. Law, science, and philosophy are the in- 
heritance of the Aryans. The Cymry Welsh, in 



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Wales, are the only living distinct scions of this 
race. 

Question. 

Who are the Semitic group ? 

Answer. Renan says that for sixteen centuries 
the Hebrews, Syrians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, 
Babylonians, and Assyrians spoke the same lan- 
guage. Eichorn called them the Semitic group. 
They were the ethical teachers of humanity and 
morality. The Hebrews (the Jews) are the most 
distinct scions living throughout the world to-day, 
traced by their Mosaic law and non-intermarriage 
with the Aryans. 

Question. 

Who are the Cymry? 

Answer. The Cymry are one of the most ancient 
of living peoples on the globe. Cymry, plural, pro- 
nounced Kumree. Cymro, singular, pronounced 
Kumro. Its derivations are a compound of Oyn, 
with, in common, and oro, land; equal having a 
common country, countrymen. Cambrians speak 
the Cymreage (Welsh) language as it is now spoken 



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in Wales. The derivation of this word, Cymry, em- 
braces the entire spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a 
Cymro, who was the author of that immortal docu- 
ment, the Declaration of Independence. 

The Germans were their cousins (Germane 
Cousin), and thirty thousand went at one time to 
Germany, and forty thousand went to France (Brit- 
tany) in 400 B. C. This accounts for the independ- 
ent thought in both these countries. 

They are one of the most remarkable races in the 
family of nations, and the least known, and most 
distinct because of their language, and published 
literature in their language. They are a most 
worthy branch of the group of nations, known as 
the Indo-European, or Aryan race, — a people who 
have had a country and a language, without any 
commixture of tongues, on the isle of Britain for 
three thousand years, which they have held and 
maintained as an unconquered and unconquerable 
race against all invaders. They are descended from 
Japheth, a son of Noah, and resided at Crimea, north 
of the Black Sea. "A numerous race, fierce, es- 
teemed, colonized thee, Britain." This was the 



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Cambrian race whose migration to this promised 
land, covering a long period of time, was marked by 
the most bloody conflicts with warlike nations who 
sought to enslave them hundreds of years after they 
had arrived on the isle of Britain. Among their in- 
vaders were the Romans, with whom they contended, 
thwarting their spirit of universal dominion in 
every position they occupied. For fifteen hundred 
years their deeds of valor against the Roman, Saxon, 
and Norman invaders, maintaining their laws, coun- 
try, and language to the last, excel all monuments 
of antiquity extant. While all the languages spoken 
in all the countries, including Greece and Rome, 
have been corrupted or ceased to have a spoken or 
written existence, the Cymreage language of the 
Cymry- Welsh in Wales has no commixture of 
tongues, and three-fourths of the Cymry in Wales 
speak it to-day. They were numerous, and divided 
into many tribes, with tribal kings chosen by vote, 
with a Bretwalda, or chief, for all their tribes, who 
was chosen by the people by ballot, and the women 
voting, fifteen hundred years before Christ. Think 
of their advanced thought on wonian suffrage! In 



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the eleventh century, Nesta, wife of Ynir (Ina), 
rode on a horse alongside of her husband for forty 
years, fighting their enemies for liberty. King 
Edward the Seventh, son of Queen Victoria, a de- 
scendant of Henry the Seventh, who was a descend- 
ant of a Welsh king, Owen Tewdrig (Tudor), who 
is now on the throne of England, is governed by the 
laws that Dyfnwall Molemud, a Cymro lawgiver, 
had established four hundred years before the Chris- 
tian era. 

The entire history of the Cambrian race has al- 
ways been in favor of civil and religious liberty. 
They fought thousands of battles to retain their re- 
publican form of government against their invaders. 
The spirit of their laws inculcated truth, honesty, 
justice, mercy, and liberty. The motto of the 
Cymry has ever been, "Y. Gwir yu erbyn y Byd." 
"Truth against the world." 

If we wish to trace the origin of the principles 
of the English common laws and of Magna Charta, 
as well as those in the declaration of American in- 
dependence, we must go back to the laws compiled 
by the great Cambrian lawgiver, known as Dyfnwall 

LofC. 



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Molemud. They guaranteed the equality of civil 
and religious rights, and secured the pursuit of 
life, liberty, and happiness to man. This was ad- 
vanced thought, the religion of civilization. It has 
been this sentiment that has been handed down 
from father to son. It was this that inspired 
Thomas Jefferson, of Cambrian birth, whose an- 
cestors came from the foot of Mount Snowdon, 
Wales, to the colony of Virginia. He always 
boasted of his Cymry-British blood. He contended 
that error should be combated with reason. His 
history is the history of his country. He was the 
author of the Declaration of Independence, pro- 
claiming freedom to downtrodden man, to all parts 
of the world, and securing him his inalienable rights 
to political, civil, and religious equality, an instru- 
ment looked upon by enslaved nations as a guiding 
star of hope to the immortal law of freedom. At 
that time tyranny ruled the earth. All the govern- 
ments of Europe were steeped in corruption and 
vice, nursed by a corrupt church. Austria in the 
arms of despotism, Spain and Italy governed by the 
Inquisition and gibbet. 



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The event of this Declaration of Independence 
severed the American colonies from the crown of 
Spain, destroyed the rotten boroughs of England, 
and gave Catholic emancipation to Ireland. It re- 
constructed governments on liberal principles. It 
gave a vast inter-oceanic continent to freedom, and 
erected the principles of civil and religious liberty 
to all mankind. Eighteen of the Cymry signed this 
immortal document with Jefferson, establishing the 
religion of civilization. 

CYMRY-WELSH SIGNERS OF THE DEC- 
LARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 

Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, author of the 
Declaration of Independence; Hon. John Adams, 
Massachusetts; Hon. Samuel Adams, Massachu- 
setts; Hon. Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island; Hon. 
William Williams, Connecticut; Hon. William 
Floyd, Long Island; Hon. Lewis Morris, New Jer- 
sey; Hon. Robert Morris, Pennsylvania; Hon. 
Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey, the author of 

"Hail Columbia"; Hon, George Clymer, ; 

Hon. John Morton, Pennsylvania; Hon. John 



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Peirce, North Carolina; Hon. Arthur Middleton, 
South Carolina; Hon. Button Gwinett, Georgia; 
Hon, Francis Henry Lightfoot Lee, Virginia; Hon. 
Richard Henry Lee, Virginia; Hon. Francis Lewis, 
Long Island; Hon. Benjamin Harrison, chairman of 
committee which reported the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence; he was governor of Virginia. These are 
names that every Welshman should preserve as an 
instance of their love of liberty. 

SEVEN CYMRY-WELSH PRESIDENTS OF 
THE UNITED STATES. 

Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Hon. James Madison, 
Hon. James Monroe, Hon. William Henry Harrison, 
Hon. John Adams, Hon. John Quincy Adams, Hon. 
Benjamin Harrison. 

We must not forget "Patsy," the wife of General 
Washington, who was Welsh. 

We find that the first man who moved the resolu- 
tion in favor of independence, the author of the 
Declaration of Independence, and the chairman of 
the committee which reported it, were of the Cam- 
brian race. Another Cymro, Gouverneur Morris, 



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wrote out the first connected draft of the American 
Constitution; and a noble Cymro, John Marshall, 
as Chief -Justice of the Union, was the first who 
expounded and established its principle on the 
immutable bases of the Constitution and of the laws 
under it, aided by the ideas of impartial equity and 
justice. We shall now name the generals who fought 
to establish these laws in the Revolution. Is it any 
wonder that Elihu Yale, a Cymro, founded Yale 
College ? 

CYMRY- WELSH GENERALS IN THE 
REVOLUTION. 

General Anthony Wayne (Mad Anthony), Gen- 
eral Isaac Shelby, General Morgan Lewis, General 
William R. Davie, General Edward Stephens, Gen- 
eral Charles Lee, General Richard Winn, General 
Daniel Morgan (Wagoner General), General John 
Cadwalader, General Andrew Lewis, General Otho 
H. Williams, General John Thomas, General Joseph 
Williams, General James Reese, and others. 



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CYMKY- WELSH COLONELS IN THE 
REVOLUTION. 

Colonel David Humphreys, Colonel Lambert Cad- 
walader, Colonel Richard Howell, Colonel Ethan 
Allen, Colonel Henry Lee, Colonel Thomas Mar- 
shall, Colonel James Williams, Colonel Robert El- 
liott, Colonel Asa Kimball, and others. 

DIVINES. 
Rev. David Jones, Rev. Samuel Davie, Rev. 
David Williams, and others. 

FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

Hon. Gouvernenr Morris, Hon. William Few, 

Hon. James Madison. 

NAVY. 

Ezekiel Hopkins, of Rhode Island, first commo- 
dore United States Navy. 

CYMRY- WELSH CAPTAINS. 

Captain John Marshall, the chief -justice, and his 
father; Captain Anthony Morris, Philadelphia, who 
fell at Princeton; Captain Isaac Davis, who fell at 
Concord; Captain Rogers, Rhode Island; Captain 



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David Dexter, Rhode Island; Captain Loring Peck, 
Rhode Island; Captain John Carr, Rhode Island; 
Captain Thomas Gorton, Rhode Island; Captain 
Arthur Fenner, Rhode Island; Captain Thomas 
Arnold, Rhode Island; Captain William Jones, 
Rhode Island; Captain Israel Gorton, Rhode Is- 
land; Captain Josiah Gibbs, Rhode Island; Captain 
John Topham, Rhode Island; Captain Alexander 
Thomas, Rhode Island; Captain Thomas Thompson, 
Rhode Island; Captain Coggeshel Olney, Rhode 
Island; Captain Stephen Olney, Rhode Island; Cap- 
tain Stephen Kimball, Rhode Island; Captain Jere- 
miah Olney, Rhode Island; and others, besides nu- 
merous captains in other States. 

SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.— The Sons of 
the Revolution published the names of eight thou- 
sand Revolutionary soldiers who were held as pris- 
oners on the prison ship, Jersey, which has recently 
been found and fully identified. And there were 
thousands more who perished on other ships, 
and were buried on the shores of Brooklyn, New 
York, near Brooklyn Bridge. Then, when all of 



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these prisoners, and many more on other ships, after 
smallpox had been introduced in the ships to deci- 
mate their number, were all offered their freedom if 
they would swear allegiance to the crown, they 
answered as their countryman, Patrick Henry, did, 
"Give me liberty, or King George and death." The 
smallpox patients were distributed along the sandy 
beach of Long Island, to decimate the inhabitants. 
Ninety-five per cent, of these soldiers' names indi- 
cate the Aryan race. We can now realize that their 
advanced thought was the religion of civilization. 

Question. 

Who are the Welsh? 

Answer. Woodward says they are the Mound 
Builders, and in his history of Wales fully identifies 
them as such. They are the only distinct scions of 
the Cymry who can trace through their Druidical 
classes, who made genealogy a study to inherit prop- 
erty, and could trace their ancestors by name to 
Japheth, son of a very old man, Noah, who 
had battled with the post-glacial floods for more 
than nine centuries. Noah evidently understood the 



Advanced Thought 63 

situation when he built a "bare ship" during the 
time of these post-glacial floods, near the fortieth 
degree, north latitude, in Asia, and took aboard with 
him his family and the male and female "of living" 
from among their vast herds, and doubtless some 
provender. His son Japheth, according to the Cymry 
genealogy, was one of the ancestors of the Aryan 
race, who, after centuries, migrated to Wales, where 
they are to-day, having sent their sons to establish 
freedom for all mankind, and establish on broad 
principles the religion of civilization. 

The Welsh in Wales derived their name from 
their invaders, who were surprised to find them so 
formidable, and called them "Welsh," meaning 
stranger. They are the only distinct people of the 
Aryan race who are teaching, speaking, and doing 
business in the same language to-day that they 
did when they first inhabited the island, now 
known as England, three thousand years ago. They 
have historic records, printed in their own language, 
of their Cymry race, preserved by legends and triads 
from the time they left the Black Sea; and as their 
migrations took centuries from Mount Ararat to 



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Wales, they marked their trace with Tumuli 
(mounds) and Cromlechs (stone altars). The most 
notable one is at Stonhenge, England, and King 
Arthur's Round Table, a levee built of earth two 
hundred and nine feet in diameter at Caerleon, on 
the Usk. (See engraving, Harper's Magazine, May, 
1877.) 

These, added to the Tumuli (mounds), too numer- 
ous to mention, enabled the Welsh historians to 
trace their Cymry-Aryan ancestors around the 
globe, on the fortieth degree north latitude, before 
modern man had a name in history. The ten thou- 
sand mounds in Ohio, on the same latitude as 
Mount Ararat, built high on terraces above the 
glacial floods, which is evidenced by glacial drift in 
this valley to-day, establishes the fact that there 
must have been a million of inhabitants in this 
valley before the modern Indian appeared. And 
the human skeleton found recently in glacial drift 
and rock in Lansing, Kansas, on or about the same 
latitude as the Black Sea, in Asia, and a tribe of 
Indians in Alaska speaking the Cymry language, 
give geologists new light on prehistoric man, whose 



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brain cells were inspired to advanced thoughts of 
intelligence by spirit, and who was the real founder 
of Advanced Thought — the religion of civilization. 

Question. 

Who are the Jews ? 

Answer. The Jews, according to their history, 
are the only distinct scions of Shem, who was also 
a son of Noah. Shem is better known as being the 
ancestor of the Semitic race. 

The Jews are a distinct, noble people, and, be- 
cause of their laws of marriage to become select, 
they have lost their language through circumstances 
beyond their control. They have retained their per- 
sonality and influence throughout the world, and 
have given the world the most remarkable history 
of the race in literature. They have also estab- 
lished their commercial relations in all countries 
and climes, and stand at the head of the greatest 
financial institutions in the world to-day, wielding 
an influence beyond the comprehension of man. 
They worship one God, fully described in their his- 
toric records, and wherever found they attend strict- 



66 Advanced Thought 

ly to business, their home, and family, which es- 
tablishes them as one of the prime factors of the 
world's progress. 

They are the only distinct people of the Semitic 
race who can trace their genealogy from Adam, 
named in their history, to the Christian era, where 
they stop. At this time their ancestors were charged 
with the crucifixion of one of their own race because 
of a difference in a religious belief at that time, 
which established another epoch, and they called it 
the year one. Since that time the Jews have been 
persecuted beyond belief. One of the greatest blots 
on civilization to this day in this enlightened age 
of the world is the persecution of the Jews, of the 
Semitic race. It is the result of ignorance during 
the dark and mystic ages of the past, and can only 
be reconciled by the slow process of advanced 
thought; that of spirit — God — inspiring the cells of 
the brain of man to that intelligence to deal in per- 
fect equity and justice with his fellow-man, the 
religion of civilization. 



INDEX. 

PAGE 

Advanced Thought 5 

Analogies 9 

Amplitude 12 

Answer to Prayer 44 

Angels 39 

Aryans 51 

Brain—Man's Receiver 13 

Brain 10 

Crime 47 

Cymry 52 

Cymry in the Revolution 59 

Catechism 5 

Conclusion 9 

Comparisons 9 

Conscience 48 

Character 41 

Devils 39 

Dual Mind 41 

Evil 39 

Good— Why Should Man be Good? 40 

God 8 

Heaven 31 

Hell 32 

Jews 65 

Love 34 

Language 19 

Matter 6 

Man 6 

Miracle 42 

Man's Spirit 33 

Memory 20 

Mind 22 

Marriage 38 

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6$ Index 



PAGE 

Marconi 26 

Prayer 43 

Primitive Man 5 

Reincarnation 46 

Religious Belief 42 

Religion 7 

Religion of Civilization 7 

Soul of Man . 39 

Semetic Group .* 52 

Spirit , 9 

Spirit in Storage , 31 

Spirit and Electricity 6 

Syntony 13 

Spiritual and Electrical Voltage 23 

Spirit for all Thought 28 

Spirit's Direct Inspiration 30 

Sons of the Revolution 61 

Thought 19 

Transmitted Spirit \ 31 

Voltage 23 

Woman '. 29 

Was Man Born in Sin ? 40 

What is a Strong Character? 41 

Will the Soul Live After the Death of the Body ? 39 

Will the Soul be Damned? 40 

Who are the Welsh? 62 

Who are the Jews? 65 

Worship 43 

World in Two Groups • 51 

The book Advanced Thought, the Religion of Civilization, 
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Ohio. 



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